PREMIER SPORTS SECURES SERIE A TIM RIGHTS IN THE UK & IRELAND

Italy’s Serie A TIM has a new home as Premier Sports secures the rights until 2021

Premier Sports will show a minimum of 6 games per round starting this weekend

Eredivisie & Chinese Super League also to move to the UK sports broadcaster

Special offer to be made available for Eleven Sports subscribers to join Premier Sports

Premier Sports has announced they have secured the rights to Italy’s Serie A TIM from February 2019 and will air a minimum of six games per round until the end of the 2020/21 season. Weekly highlights and preview shows are set to be broadcast by Premier Sports as well as a number of games live on sister free-to-air channel FreeSports. The rights were previously with Eleven Sports and they will continue to broadcast this content non-exclusively in the UK until the 25th of February 2019.

Serie A TIM offers the chance for UK viewers to watch the best of Italian football featuring European giants Juventus, Napoli, Roma, Inter & AC Milan amongst others, along with some of the best footballers in the world such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Mauro Icardi, Paulo Dybala & Dries Mertens.

This monumental deal also includes the acquisition of the Eredivisie and the Chinese Super League with Premier Sports and FreeSports airing the biggest games of each round from the Netherlands and China across their network.

The addition of these top flight leagues adds more great content for Premier customers already enjoying every game from the PRO14 rugby, the biggest Scottish Cup games and NHL. Premier Sports are offering Eleven Sports customers a welcome offer giving them the chance to subscribe to Premier Sports on the Sky or Player Platform at the reduced rate of £5.99 per month with the first month free.

Premier Sports is available in 16 million UK homes across Sky and Virgin platforms and to everyone via the Premier Player https://www.premierplayer.tv/ while FreeSports will be available to 22 million UK homes across seven different platforms.

Richard Sweeney CEO of Premier Sports commented, "we are delighted to be bringing Italian football to our channel line up along with the other great football leagues. This addition adds tremendous value for our customers who already enjoy top Rugby Union, Scottish football and American sports. We look forward to announcing more content in the coming weeks as we continue to grow Premier Sports into a major pay TV operator in the UK and Ireland."

“We are delighted to have signed a new partnership agreement with Premier Sports to broadcast the Serie A TIM in the UK and Ireland until the end of the 2020/2021 season – said Marco Brunelli, Lega Serie A CEO -. Thanks to this contract, Serie A TIM will have a new home in the UK and Ireland, a very important market for Italian football. We are very happy that now our English and Irish fans will have the chance to watch the best of Serie A TIM and admire our world-class Champions”.

ABOUT PREMIER SPORTS

Premier Sports was founded in 2009 and operates three sports TV channels in the UK. Premier Sports 1 is on Sky channel 412 and Virgin channel 551. Premier Sports 2 is on Sky channel 435 and Virgin Channel 552. FreeSports is available free on Sky Channel 422, Virgin Media Channel 553, on Channel 95 on Freeview and BT and on Freesat Channel 252.

Both Premier Sports channels are available on a subscription basis for just £9.99 per month on Sky and on the Premier Sports player. The channels are also available to pubs, clubs and other commercial premises throughout the UK.
Premier Sports also show all 152 games from the Guinness PRO14, 15 games a week from the NHL, GAA and the home of NASCAR in the UK.